Word: ez
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first glance Big Apple is in the tradition of CBS policiers about morally conflicted cops and feds (at best, EZ Streets and Wiseguy; at worst, Falcone). But the series' NYPD Blue lineage becomes clear when those trademark, mannered Milchisms start flying ("Speaks well of you, the address comes so quickly to mind," Mooney says when his partner recognizes the location of a strip club...
...Apple has the makings of an absorbing, complex intrigue, although so far its psychologically flat characters are nowhere near as intriguing as EZ Streets' (or even NYPD Blue's). We've seen O'Neill's bulldog lawman too often, as well as the hackneyed Noo-Yawk elements: the title, the waterfront scenes, the fast-talking thugs constantly declaring their ethnicity, swearing, spouting colorful cliches or all three ("Kiss my underpaid Irish ass!"). The dank, moody tone is dead-on, though, and a strong cast includes the welcome David Strathairn as the stressed-out head of the FBI force...
...starting modeling at such a young age, Emmy says, is that her entire life is now documented on film. She remembers the disappointment of her ads and TV appearances gradually going out of style. Soon after a photo shoot she did in high school, Emmy says, ithe supercool eZ. Cavsi I was wearing in the film mysteriously went out of style. Now thereis a permanent image of me on tape in early 90is fashion complete with braces,i she recalls. To have those igrowing painsi scrutinized by the rest of the world was often difficult, Emmy says, lamenting the pain...